Annu. Rev. Psychol. 1997. 48:515–46 OB IN THE ROUSSEAUNEW ORGANIZATIONAL ERA Copyright © 1997 by Annual Reviews Inc. All rights reserved ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR IN THE NEW ORGANIZATIONAL ERA Denise M. Rousseau Heinz School of Public Policy and Management and Graduate School of Industrial Administration‚ Carnegie Mellon University‚ Pittsburgh‚ Pennsylvania 15213 KEY WORDS: employment relations‚ performance paradox‚ organizational change‚ organizational learning‚ organizing‚ self-management
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Issues Identified: 1) The first issue of the case is whether Harry Hepburn‚ the president of Southern California Division of Robinson Brothers Homes should make the projection on the specific project more optimistic or not. By making the revenue forecasts more optimistic‚ the most likely outcome is that the project will be undertaken and his team of employees will keep their position. Otherwise‚ at the current estimated return projections‚ the project is expected to be declined‚ and Harry’s team
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Case Study Analysis: Why Dine Equity’s CEO Julia A Stewart Manages Like a Teacher? Summary: Julia Stewart is an extremely successful businesswoman who brought in the techniques that her father used in teaching his US history class into the world of restaurant management. Julia takes her skeptical father to several Taco Bell restaurants to show him how she has been using techniques learnt from watching him. She identifies the importance of crediting employees for their work and thereby increasing
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The Saraf Foods Investment (A) Cornell University Johnson Graduate School of Management NBA 593 International Entrepreneurship Auke Cnosssen‚ MBA ‘04 prepared this case study under the guidance of and with Professor Melvin Goldman as the basis for class discussion rather than to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of a business situation.1 The Saraf Foods Investment (A) In August 1999‚ Vishnu Varshney‚ head of Gujarat Venture Finance Ltd. (GVFL)‚ a venture capital firm in
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Instructors Manual Case Studies Table of Contents Introduction Shipper Manufacturing Company ………………………………............ C-2 FHE‚ Inc. ……………………………………………………………….. C-5 Early Supplier Integration in the Design of the Skid-Steer Loader……... C-9 Process Design Eastern Gear‚ Inc. ………………………………………………………. C-17 Southwest Airlines: Singin’ the (Jet) Blues …………………………….. C-21 The Field Service Division of DMI ……………………………………. C-29 Pharmacy Service Improvement at CVS (A) …………………………… C-36 U.S.
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In taking the management role‚ I will find a way to create a strategy to maintain a nonunion employment situation. Some important facts about this case study is that Custom Conveyer Division employs about 120 production employees and 11 supervisor/management positions. The 120 production employees are split evenly between five semi-skilled job classifications. There are two other plants in Cumberland that hire employees with the same type of skills and start pay about $1 less an hour than CCD. There
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2004 What Is a Case Study and What Is It Good for? JOHN GERRING Boston University T his paper aims to clarify the meaning‚ and explain the utility‚ of the case study method‚ a method often practiced but little understood. A “case study‚” I argue‚ is best defined as an intensive study of a single unit with an aim to generalize across a larger set of units. Case studies rely on the same sort of covariational evidence utilized in non-case study research. Thus‚ the case study method is correctly
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Case Study Assignment – Winter 2013 Steven He MGTS 352 – Operations Management Constraint Management Tetsu Nakashima March 5‚ 2013 Business Strategy of CRP Products A business strategy is the mechanism by which the direction of a business is coordinated‚ and the steps it will take to achieve its goals. CRP Product’s goal is to “create beautiful and functional designs from recycled plastic.” CRP Products has incorporated environmental values into their
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ERP CASE STUDY ON SONY CORPORATION HISTORY OF SONY * Akio Morita and Masaru Ibuka started ‘Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering’ on May 7‚ 1946 with its headquartered in Minato‚ Tokyo Japan. * The company produced the Japanese first tape recorder in 1950. * In 1952‚ Ibuka traveled to United States and heard about Bell Laboratory invention of the transistor. He convinced Bell to license the transistor technology to his Japanese company. While most American companies were researching
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1) Objectives of the case: To understand and evaluate the dramatic rise and fall of the stock prices of the Web consultants‚ along with many others in the Internet sector‚ during the dot come bubble of 2000. It was question that boggled minds‚ as to how this could have happened in a relatively sophisticated capital market like that of the United States. To discuss the role of capital market intermediaries in the dot-com of 2000 and to check whether their incentives were properly aligned with their
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